This lecture shall support finalists of the CDS Program in their thesis writing process. For this purpose, it is designed as a writing workshop, offering space and time to discuss actual problems and questions popping up within the finalists working process.

We will work in peer groups, set deadlines to structure your writing process, and give help with information about actual problems or questions concerning the writing process.

Within class you will get feedback in a safe peer-group athmosphere, therefore you will also discuss and give feedback to your colleagues work and questions to "feed forward" your competences to recognice "good academic writing"

Furthermore, you have to deliver pieces of your text work in time, to get my feedback on it within the next  session.

This seminar should be a save space for exchange and discussing students’ individual problems with their thesis and their thesis writing process. Additionally, it is an opportunity to get an independent view (from me) of an external writing expert for academic and cross-disciplinary writing.

The focus specific input-blocks will be timely adapted to th deadlines of the BA-Finalists, if possible:

- A good Expose as a guideline for your writing process: 

- Kick-off: get started with putting your thesis zero draft down! 

- Get your  “shitty 1st draft” on paper.

- Feedback on your 1st draft: Revision of content and macro structure

- How to intergrate (supervisors) feedback  on your advanced draft

- Finish your Final draft! 

You will have to deliver drafts and interstage products in time before each next session.

To finish this lecture you have to achieve a positive grade in each of the two grading parts: 4 ECTS =100h

• Active participation in class (24 h)

  You have to participate in the writing workshop sessions". Therfore, for a positive grade (4), you have to participate in at least 5 full sessions. To achieve the best grade (1) you have to participate in 8 sessions  (compensation of two missing session possible).

• Delivering  drafts of you BA writing process (76h)
  You have deliver drafts ( parts of the BA text production process), in time before the next session and uploaded on the base. For a positive grade (4), you have to deliver at least 4 written draftspieces in time. To achieve the best grade (1) you have to submitt 7 drafts or more in time.

According to the deadlines communicated within the BA- Thesis Seminar, the numer of seminar sessions will be reduced to 9 sessions untill the first session of this seminar..